Building The Core

So I'm trying a thing, back into coding. 
I remember my coding days...

I'm working on the front-end stuff, 
the back-end stuff will... Take shape.

I'm going to need it, obviously, but...

Having stuff already built will be nice
to be able to take the code straight away,
and pop it where it's supposed to be...

The first part is the login/signup/signout part.

I never learned that part, 
because all I ever built were very basic sites.
Without any kinds of systems, 
because I never knew how to build systems.

I pulled another all-nighter.
Hard to get off night-shift mode.

Everything's quiet at night.

The thing with getting stuff done, 
is that I want to keep going
until I feel sick and can't
which isn't healthy.

I found some code for a neat effect for the login and signup page.
It has animations.

Also, I put border animations on the buttons.

The only thing is that for the login to work, 
I have to create a database for it.
So people can login if the passwords match.

The part after that are the dashboards.
I'm having two parts...
Buyers accounts, 
and sellers accounts.

Each with their own dashboard etc. 
And features etc.

The idea is a "marketplace" for a specific niche.

Software is the way to go. 
Software people can use to make money...
Even better.

WILD some of the new software I've seen. 
Like that BOLT one I found, recently.

Just really cool tech stuff. 

I may not have the proper coding skills, 
but I have ideas.

I was watching a video about software stuff. 

The guy was saying that he just saw what was already
out there and making money, 
and just niched it down. 


That's what I plan on doing for a few sites. 

Tools that are already working, 
but just more specific.

When you have hobbies, it helps
to appeal to others who have the same interests as you.

There are broad niches and sub-niches. 
People generally are looking for specific things.

The more specific you can get, 
the more targeted your traffic's going to be.

And if it's something that might help people sell, online, 
that'd be pretty neat.

It's more of less to learn to build out systems
and never know what might be of interest.

It's interesting to me.

But what's of interest to us, 
might not be interesting to everyone.

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Anyway, got back from the store...

Food for a week or so $98.
It's around $400/month on food, if that...

And here I am with less than that after my bills...
Time to fix that! Been time for the last 10 years.

Good thing I can code (somewhat).
I have the ideas, but only so much time, 
and only have 2 hands...

That's why it'd be cool to team up with someone.

It takes me all night just to do one part of something.
It feel "rewarding" when it's done, but...
IT STILL TAKES ALL NIGHT.

Well, back when I first started coding, 
it used to take me a week to figure out one thing.

Like when I learned how to position a div right up
to the top and right up to the left.
There's always a gap there and there
until you set it with margin-left: 0;
and margin-top: 0;

TRYING TO FIGURE THAT OUT...
TOOK ME OVER A WEEK. 

I couldn't just ask chatgpt to help me out. 

Chatgpt can code, but it's frustrating, at times, 
because it'll give me code that only works partially.
I don't know if it's because I need better, specific, prompts...
Or if I'm trying to push it to its limits...

Anyway, you can give images to Bolt, 
and it can code based on the image.

Which means you can code UIs faster than ever.
And that's what has been bugging me quite a bit.

I'm a coder, not a designer.
I can see things, in my head, but to translate it into code...

AND THEN TRY TO MAKE IT FUNCTIONAL....

But I used to have to DIG AND DIG for code
that I wanted for specific things.

And even then, I went to forums to ask questions. 

"Why isn't this working? How do I make it work?"
"Here's the code I have, what am I doing wrong?"

But what really helped me out was watching tutorials. 
Actually following along. Actually coding from the video.
Of course I had to write it, line by line, 
which most people don't want to do anymore.

I can't say that I blame them, because it takes a long @ss time to do.

But what I was getting to was that there are people out there, 
who don't know how to code, at all, building software.

SaaS is the way things are going it seems.

But like I said, some things only appeal to some people.

People using the software to make money are more likely to use it.
Because who doesn't want to make money?

That's like in the gold rush days...
People selling the shovels probably made more $$$
than the ones looking for gold...

There's a guy on YouTube who does videos about affiliate marketing.
He's made millions. Doing site stuff... 
He's got membership sites, too. 

Anyway he does a disclaimer in his videos.
He says this:

"Please remember that these results aren't typical, implied, or gauranteed."
Because the average person, online, doesn't make any money.
Which is true. 

Also, I spent most of my time "reseaching." Watching videos.
Although I've learned some stuff, it only goes so far.

That is part of the reason most people don't make money with it.
What the guy does is builds a tool or whatever and buys a press release.

Press releases aren't cheap.
Still under $1K, but still.

Most people trying to make money online
are people really struggling.
Barely afford web hosting fees.

It's that when you are, already, it's easier.
The hardest thing is making the first sales.

Already made my first commissions.

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Anyway, I wrote that a few days ago
Are you ready for a long one?
Next one's probably going to be one.